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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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+4.0
Pray Game
Combat is challenging and strategic, requiring skillful resource and ability management, with a steep learning curve…
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+4.0
PULSAR: Lost Colony
Game requires skillful coordination, managing complex ship systems, and tactical combat, with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
The game features skill-based combat with weapon upgrades, experience progression, and increasingly challenging enemies…
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+4.0
Retro Gadgets
The game challenges players to learn and apply Lua programming and logic to build functional gadgets, providing skill…
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+4.0
RV There Yet?
Game challenges players with physics puzzles, driving mechanics, and problem solving requiring skill and coordination.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams
The game offers challenging combat, skill mastery, and build optimization with feedback through boss fights and…
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+4.0
ShipCrafter
Game challenges players to master ship building, buoyancy, armor placement, and combat mechanics with skill feedback.
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+4.0
Smithworks
Game requires significant skill, coordination, and quick decision-making to succeed, especially in multiplayer.
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+4.0
System Shock
The game requires skillful inventory management, combat tactics, and puzzle solving with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Tainted Grail: Conquest
The game offers a steep learning curve with complex mechanics, challenging enemies, and skillful deckbuilding; mastery…
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+4.0
The Banner Saga 2
Combat is strategic and challenging with skill-based decisions; character progression and tactical depth increase…
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+4.0
The Escapists
The game requires skillful planning, crafting, and timing to successfully escape, with feedback from guards and…
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+4.0
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The game challenges players with complex time management, puzzle-solving, and mastering multiple transformation masks…
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+4.0
Tower Tag
Game offers skill-based shooting, strategic team play, and tactical movement with a high skill ceiling and ranked modes…
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+4.0
Transport Fever 2
Requires significant brain usage, strategic planning, and skill to optimize supply chains and transport routes.
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+4.0
Trimps
Game involves skillful resource management, optimization, and overcoming increasingly complex challenges.
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+4.0
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
The game is challenging with complex level design, strategic combat, and skillful use of weapons and objectives.
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+4.0
Variables 2
The game offers challenging strategic and tactical decisions, especially at higher difficulties, requiring skill and…
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+4.0
Vivid Knight
The game offers a challenging difficulty curve requiring skillful resource management, strategic planning, and…
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+4.0
Wantless : Solace at World’s End
The game offers challenging tactical combat requiring skillful planning and mastery of complex mechanics, rewarding…
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+4.0
Warzone 2100
The game offers deep RTS gameplay with a large tech tree, challenging missions, and skill-based unit management, though…
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+4.0
Ziggurat 2
Fast-paced, skill-based combat with dodging, aiming, and strategic weapon use; difficulty scales and rewards skillful…
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+4.0
Aces & Adventures
Game requires strategic thinking, skillful deckbuilding, and tactical play to optimize poker hands and abilities.
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+4.0
Archon Soul
The game requires skillful dice and spell build optimization, strategic planning, and adapting to enemy mechanics.
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